FoCS Honors Brunch
09/26/2005 - The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) 2005 Honors Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences.
Graduate Students
FoCS Honors Brunch 2004
09/20/2004 - The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) 2004 Honors Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Expo on September 20, 2004.
Basu, Bilenko and Mooney receive the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award
08/25/2004 - Sugato Basu, Misha Bilenko and Ray Mooney won the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award for their paper "A Probabilistic Framework for Semi-supervised Clustering," presented at KDD2004, "the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining."
UTCS Awards and Honors for Spring 2004
07/30/2004 - UTCS recognizes faculty and graduate students who earned awards in honors in 2004.
UTCS Graduate Student Alex X. Liu receives the 2004 William C. Carter Award
07/09/2004 - For his paper entitled "Diverse Firewall Design" co-authored with Dr. Mohamed G. Gouda, UTCS Graduate Student Alex X. Liu received the 2004 William C. Carter Award.
CS Ph.D. student Greg Johnson wins NVIDIA Fellowship
05/28/2004 - NVIDIA has awarded CS Ph.D. student Gregory Johnson a 2004 International Fellowship Award "for his work in Computer Graphics and Visualization" as noted in the TACC's fellowship announcement.
Dr. Seth Pettie Receives an Outstanding Dissertation Award
05/07/2004 - We are proud to announce UTCS Ph.D. Graduate Seth Pettie received an Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2003-2004 for his dissertation titled "On the Shortest Path and Minimum Spanning Tree Problems" written under the supervision of Vijaya Ramachandran.
Career Services in Taylor Hall
01/13/2004 - Natural Sciences Career Services now offers opportunities to meet with a career counselor in Taylor hall.
University of Texas at Austin Team Finishes First in Coached Simulation League at International Robotic Championship
07/12/2003 - Dr. Peter Stone, assistant professor of computer sciences, and his student team won first place in a computer-simulated soccer competition at RoboCup 2003 in Italy.
Jeff Rickel - 1963 - 2003
07/06/2003 - The department is sad to announce that Jeff Rickel (Ph.D. '95) passed away from complications due to cancer. Bruce Porter says "He was one of the best students I've had the pleasure to work with." After graduating, he joined the excellent AI group at USC/ISI.